Litter & Marine Debris

Now we are all warriors - in the war against waste.
The waste warriors take to their boats and become ocean crusaders.
There are also the waste transformers who create visual poetry from the discarded and abandoned to speak to us.
Carolyn Cardinet is a French born, local and international …

On a (rare) cold, wet and squally day, waves lapped on the shore of the Yarra River at Westgate Park. Back and forth washed the post-storm familiar mix of plastic bottles, polystyrene and wrappers, tantalisingly out of reach of the Tangaroa Blue clean up volunteers because of the high tide.
It …

Litter collecting on the banks of the Yarra River under the Westgate Bridge was more random, less systematic, than in previous years. I went down there when I could and set the timer for thirty minutes.
Polystryrene was overwhelmingly the most abundantly found item. It's between every rock and …

This is (a slightly edited version of) my contribution to the Imagine the Yarra Conversations Public Event held at the Arts Centre on 19 September. It was prepared to be spoken rather than as a written piece.
Good evening
My subject is the River entrance.
I pay my respects to the people and …

23 March 2018
projected year total of 233,000 for the last year
new BeachPatrol groups started spring/summer of 2017 in SafetyBeach/Dromana 3936 and Rosebud/McCrae 3939.
Now over 2300 volunteers across all groups!
And also in Mornington Shire, 2 more in the planning stages: Mt …

Less faithful to this river beach under the Westgate Bridge than in previous years but constant enough to get to know the rhythms of litter. After rain, the flood of littered plastic borne downstream by the River. In dry weather, the food and fishing packaging left behind by people who also like to …

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Transformation and transition

Port Places respectfully acknowledges the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders – past and present. We acknowledge and uphold their continuing relationship to this land.